What is the difference between the i7 4790k and i5 4690k
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i7 worth it for gaming: no, for rendering: yes.
You could always go in the middle and get an E3 Xeon which is just above the price of an i5 but has hyperthreading like an i7. You will need a dedicated gpu but since you are gaming I would assume you are using dedicated graphics.
You could always go in the middle and get an E3 Xeon which is just above the price of an i5 but has hyperthreading like an i7. You will need a dedicated gpu but since you are gaming I would assume you are using dedicated graphics.
The i5 has 6mb of cache and i7 8mb. Also the i7 has hyperthreading which is a more effective way of the i7 scheduling tasks i dont think it makes a difference. And of course teh clock speeds which u can oc to just about even around 4.7 on the i7 and 4.6 on the i5 but some chips do better of worse.
If u mostly game get the i5.
If u mostly game get the i5.
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A i7-4790k gives you a guaranteed high clockrate. The all cores turbo is 4.2GHz and the dual core turbo is 4.4GHz even if you run it at stock. It's a better binned chip that the i5-4690k, which is only guaranteed to hit 3.9GHz. With that said, most 4690k's seem to be able to hit 4.5GHz or so with decent cooling based on what I have read from people who have them. I do think hyperthreading is worth it for games. There are some games like Dragon Age Inquisition, Crysis 3, Watchdogs, Battlefield 4, and a couple others I can't recall right now that perform better on i7 vs i5 at the same clockspeed thanks to the extra virtual cores. I personally find HT a worthy investment (which is why I got a Xeon E3-1231v3), since games are written to be optimized for 8-core consoles and since comparing gaming performance for an i3 vs an overclocked Pentium shows that hyperthreading can make a significant difference for gaming.
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